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I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist. — Robert Engman

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group. — Morrissey

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. — Yayoi Kusama

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist. — Chris Robinson

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being. — Salvador Dali

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me. — Gretchen Wilson

Every human being is an artist — Joseph Beuys

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable. — Lucian Freud

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt. — Brice Marden

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist. — John Martyn

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior. — William Faulkner

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist. — Seth Godin

Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist. — Nathan Sawaya

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. — Orson Welles

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer! — Thia Megia

Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home. — Anthony Hamilton

It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more. — Alexander McCall Smith

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong. — Damian Loeb

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience. — Sinead O'Connor

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. — Oscar Isaac

I really wasn't planning on being a solo artist. — Juicy J

Being an artist is more than a job or a skill; it's a way of walking through the world. — Anita Diamant

There is no difference between being an artist and being in love. — Marty Rubin

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work. — Andrew Levitas

The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!! — Hiroko Sakai

You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names. — Pharoahe Monch

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic. — Micah Lexier

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — Richard Linklater

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist. — Smokey Robinson

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome. — Chris Johnson

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist. — Rebecca Makkai

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future. — Thomas Kinkade

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both. — Wendy Starland

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them. — Annette Messager

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — Robert Genn

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls. — James Rosenquist

There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens. — Andrea Zittel

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.' — Jason Calacanis

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important. — E. J. Hughes

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world. — Ne-Yo

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

The artist after all is a solitary being. — Virginia Woolf

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist. — Marko Djurdjevic

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson

You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation. — Charlotte Eriksson

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly. — Claude Monet

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. — Marcel Duchamp

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie. — Graeme Base

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that. — Chris Robinson

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist. — Alan Palomo

Being an artist is being an isolated individual. — Asger Jorn

I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do. — Tom Scholz

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. — Novalis

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist. — Chris Matakas

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie? — Meg Wolitzer

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind. — Rose McGowan

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. — Ernest Becker

Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist. — Chuck Palahniuk

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. — Ernst Haas

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art. — Tracey Emin

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point. — Peabo Bryson

Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career. — Wade Guyton

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire

Being an artist is celebrating life. — Henry Moore

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist. — Christian Keiber

There's such a freedom about being an artist ... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing. — Cornelia Parker

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. — Richard Diebenkorn

A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. — Shawn Lukas

Being an artist is a job for life. — Brian Eno

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time. — Jan Brett

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't. — M. Night Shyamalan

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people. — Marilyn Manson

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older. — Gary Hume

To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on. — Jami Attenberg

Laguna prided itself on being an artist's colony that accepted all classes and cultures, not merely tolerating eccentrics but delighting in them. — Dean Koontz

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A. — Steve Aoki

To be an artist - actually, to be a human being in these times - it's all difficult. ... What matters is to know what you want and pursue it. — Patti Smith

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist. — Lenny Kravitz

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by. — Alessia Cara

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists. — Yelawolf

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it? — Kate Bush

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. — Steven Pressfield

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. — James Baldwin

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist. — Shirley Knight

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. — Ralph Steadman

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try. — Laura Osnes

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman ... it amazes me still. — Jenni Rivera

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. — Youssou N'Dour

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence. — Toyin Odutola

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — Edgar Degas

But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. — The New Yorker

Unique is what one person does alone. What is not unique is what others have to collaborate on. — Shannon L. Alder